Celebrate the Journey: The Campaign for North Star Museum

Your generous donations have now moved us past $300,000 in cash and pledges. While we have a long way to go, you have already made a difference for us. Read on below, and see the exciting things you can support when you support the "Celebrate the Journey" campaign!

The North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting, with its mission to collect, preserve, and interpret Boy Scout and Girl Scout history and present it to the public, is unique in the five-state upper Midwest region. Our three-decades-long efforts to uncover and preserve our region's Scouting stories have prevented them from being lost to history forever. And, thanks to the Museum, thousands are exposed to these stories each year via tours, educational programs and service opportunities. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, as youth development organizations, are forward looking--not naturally inclined to think of programs in a historical context and absent a mission to focus on preserving the stories and material culture of the past. No doubt their innovative and forward-looking focus has resulted in their success and longevity, yet such a focus can lead to lost opportunity. That's where the North Star Museum comes in. We are the chief caretaker of the Boy and Girl Scout's stories, bridging the past to the present and the future. Those who wish to remember and appreciate past connections with Scouting find it here. We're also the place for those who seek to deliver Boy Scout and Girl Scout programs to youth in a historical context. Bottom line: we meet a need for everyone who cares about Scouting. With the Boy Scouts celebrating their centennial in 2010, and the Girl Scouts celebrating theirs in 2012, there is no better time to recognize that preserving the history of these two organizations is important and worthy, acknowledge the contributions the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have made to our community, nation and world, and ensure the Museum that honors those achievements will endure to celebrate its own 100th anniversary.